I just thought this up earlier today as I read a fact in my computer class in collage:
"One track on a CD is nearly 3 miles long. There are over 300,000 sectors in each track"
What interesting or weird facts about computers do you know that you think others may find interesting or surprising (I know the CD one above surprised me. I accually didn't know that.)
Full Version: Some Interesting or Weird Facts You Know...
I don't know of any profound computer trivia although yours is astounding; boggles my mind.
I do have a medical fact... your small intestine, if extended fully, would supposedly wrap around the earth however many times. This has to be a load of baloney though; I absolutely cannot believe that. The circumference of the earth in small intestines neatly wound up inside your body; yeah right!
* one of my lenses just fell to the floor and it may have broke!
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edit: No, it's fine, besides the fact that I can't see anything now.
I do have a medical fact... your small intestine, if extended fully, would supposedly wrap around the earth however many times. This has to be a load of baloney though; I absolutely cannot believe that. The circumference of the earth in small intestines neatly wound up inside your body; yeah right!
* one of my lenses just fell to the floor and it may have broke!
*edit: No, it's fine, besides the fact that I can't see anything now.
your colon is 5ft long apparently........and on rotten.com theres a pic of 5ft sh*t........OUCH
tha's not true, I think it's the small intestine of all the people in the world wrapping around the earth.... which is still a lot
btw, a 5ft faecus(?) would hurt like hell, how could anyone do that?
btw, a 5ft faecus(?) would hurt like hell, how could anyone do that?
keep these already gross thread clean guys.
One hertz is one time a second
One megaherts is one million times a second
One Gigahertz is 1,000,000,000 times a second
just something to think about when you are working at your 3Ghz P4
One megaherts is one million times a second
One Gigahertz is 1,000,000,000 times a second
just something to think about when you are working at your 3Ghz P4
What about 1 Terahertz?
Exahertz?
Yottahertz?
Zettahertz?!?
Exahertz?
Yottahertz?
Zettahertz?!?
does the last one actually exist? I had never herd of a zettahetz... tha's a lot
Gigahertz already borders on the radiation released in a microwave.... lol anything higher would be toxic to humans with out some real sheilding I think Microwaves operate at like 2Ghz or something (I havent looked it up thats just a guess) the electromagnetic spectrum is realy interesting here is web page all about it
http://www.wa1mba.org/micros.htm
I think Microwaves operate at like 2Ghz or something (I havent looked it up thats just a guess) the electromagnetic spectrum is realy interesting here is web page all about it http://www.wa1mba.org/micros.htm
| QUOTE (D3m0n @ Nov 8 2003, 05:14 AM) |
your colon is 5ft long apparently........and on rotten.com theres a pic of 5ft sh*t........OUCH |
What would possess someone to say, visit that site on a daily basis... That's some of the most twisted stuff I've ever seen; I found myself screaming and I only looked at a few pictures. :sick:
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| does the last one actually exist? I had never herd of a zettahetz... tha's a lot |
prefix (used to modify scale of other units)
yotta, Y
zetta, Z
exa, E
peta, P
tera, T
giga, G
mega, M
kilo, k
hecto, h
deka, da
deci, d
centi, c
milli, m
micro, u
nano, n
pico, p
femto, f
atto, a
zepto, z
yocto, y
( http://www.calchemy.com/ucunits.htm#prefix )
WOW!
I also think that's all of them. I don't think there are any more.
what you mean tha's all of them! they have to invent newer ones for the future... that thing probably has a pattern like counting, so i dont think it will ever reach an end... it's probably like a latin way of counting or sometn..
| QUOTE (.::PHPfanatic::. @ Nov 9 2003, 10:12 AM) |
| What would possess someone to say, visit that site on a daily basis... That's some of the most twisted stuff I've ever seen; I found myself screaming and I only looked at a few pictures. :sick: |
that stuff is twisted but in a way its interesting........blame my aunty she asked me to look at it
| QUOTE (parhamreza @ Nov 8 2003, 08:24 PM) |
| btw, a 5ft faecus(?) would hurt like hell, how could anyone do that? |
lots of laxatives and lubricant
lol j/k it said on the site that its was removed surgical i think
| QUOTE (.::PHPfanatic::. @ Nov 8 2003, 07:25 AM) |
| I don't know of any profound computer trivia although yours is astounding; boggles my mind. I do have a medical fact... your small intestine, if extended fully, would supposedly wrap around the earth however many times. This has to be a load of baloney though; I absolutely cannot believe that. The circumference of the earth in small intestines neatly wound up inside your body; yeah right! * one of my lenses just fell to the floor and it may have broke! *edit: No, it's fine, besides the fact that I can't see anything now. |
I think its the veins...
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| If all the veins in the human body were laid end to end, they would stretch around the world. If you unraveled the alimentary canal--the esophagus, stomach and intestines--they would reach the height of a three story building. |
That info and a bunch more sick stuff bout the body is here
http://www.dribbleglass.com/articles/body_parts.htm?o=0
This was another good one from that page
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| the human body can survive even without the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area |
Anyway heres a computer fact
Apollo Guidance Computer: 30720 bits of changeable memory.... so into bytes thats *8 = 245760 into K... = 240 And the memory cycle time was 11.7 microseconds... What they could have done with a TI calc
| QUOTE (parhamreza @ Nov 9 2003, 02:35 AM) |
what you mean tha's all of them! they have to invent newer ones for the future... that thing probably has a pattern like counting, so i dont think it will ever reach an end... it's probably like a latin way of counting or sometn.. |
You're right Rezza, it will never reach an end, there's always something smaller or bigger (ie: string theory). I hadn't really looked into these units but I never knew there was anything smaller or larger than a pico and a tera, respectively. I mean, obviously, I knew there was but I just didn't know the names.
200 yHz Athlon XP
Thanks for that page, GTX.
+ Bookmarked
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| Apollo Guidance Computer: 30720 bits of changeable memory.... so into bytes thats *8 = 245760 into K... = 240 And the memory cycle time was 11.7 microseconds... What they could have done with a TI calc |
30720 bits is 3840 bytes, right? That's about 3kb. 8 bits for every byte.
They would've loved a TI calculator though
This is kind of off-topic but since you are talking about TI calculators I'm going to mention it.
I don't know if any of you have noticed but in the TI 83+ and maybe others, this is just the one I own, there's a quark. Whenever you chose Dot or Connected mode from Mode and go to the Y= list, enter a function, and then clear it dot mode will no longer be the mode but rather connected mode. If you delete the function using the delete button instead of the clear button it will not change back to connected mode and stay on dot mode. If you deselect the function by selecting "=" then it will stay on the specified mode too. This is the case on any of the modes you select. I said I was going to email TIcalc about this, hoping they will fix it in the next os but I never did. It's something that shouldn't be this way and this would be the only way to fix it.
Anyway, back on the topic of computer trivia... I just thought I'd point that out.
I don't know if any of you have noticed but in the TI 83+ and maybe others, this is just the one I own, there's a quark. Whenever you chose Dot or Connected mode from Mode and go to the Y= list, enter a function, and then clear it dot mode will no longer be the mode but rather connected mode. If you delete the function using the delete button instead of the clear button it will not change back to connected mode and stay on dot mode. If you deselect the function by selecting "=" then it will stay on the specified mode too. This is the case on any of the modes you select. I said I was going to email TIcalc about this, hoping they will fix it in the next os but I never did. It's something that shouldn't be this way and this would be the only way to fix it.
Anyway, back on the topic of computer trivia... I just thought I'd point that out.
| QUOTE (GoatBoy @ Nov 10 2003, 03:21 AM) | ||
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i read taht in a book i have and it also says that if you remove only 50% of the water in your body you will die!!
i found this out from TV
everyday u breathe in 1 litre of other peoples farts!!!!
everyday u breathe in 1 litre of other peoples farts!!!!
Well that's a useful fact to know...thanks.
That's....... inter....esting......
| QUOTE (.::PHPfanatic::. @ Nov 11 2003, 11:32 AM) |
| Well that's a useful fact to know...thanks. |
see now dont you 2 feel healthier.........methane is good for the soul
It's also flammable... Very fun if you can get a hold of the actuall chemical
| QUOTE (GTX5_Crusader @ Nov 12 2003, 02:26 AM) |
| It's also flammable... Very fun if you can get a hold of the actuall chemical |
nah the best chemical to get ur hands on is KNO3 .. (Postassium Nitrate) make heaps of kool explosions with that stuff (mixed with others of course
how about sum Francium? unstable by itself------KABOOM
TNT
Plutonium should work just fine
Uranium is more deadly though...
Plutonium should work just fine
Uranium is more deadly though...
lol no worries........lets go down to our local black market and buy ourselves sum weapons grade plutonium
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